In all, 146 workers, most of them immigrant young women and girls, perished in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. For 90 years it stood as New York's deadliest workplace disaster. This story ...

The fire triangle has three sides: fuel, oxygen, and heat. When these three elements combine correctly, pyrolysis occurs. However, these elements often coexist without causing a fire—fuel is ...

(Left) Firefighters dousing the flames at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York City, on March 25, 1911. (Right) People walk past the Asch building 100 years later, on March 24, 2011.

The challenge when writing history is to break the glass that separates us from the past. To connect somehow with those who lived before us and turn them back into people — not flat abstractions ...

But to communicate the importance of collective action, she reached back in time — specifically, back to the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire. Talking to a Ukrainian coworker at her store ...

One of the most infamous tragedies in American manufacturing history is the Triangle shirtwaist factory fire of 1911. You may recall the story—how a blaze in a New York City sweatshop resulted in the ...

History remembers the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory fire in New York City as one of the most infamous American industrial incidents. A fire broke out in the factory on March 25 ...

In all, 146 workers, most of them immigrant young women and girls, perished in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. For 90 years it stood as New York's deadliest workplace disaster. This story ...